Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors (1936)

GAIL PATRICK BP, (paramount player) Gail Patrick stands alone — the only campus belle who ever made good in Hollywood. Usually, the girls who reign at junior proms and are selected as "Queen of Beauty" for the senior year book, marry a football hero and settle down' to obscure and dutiful motherhood, Gail, whoso campus accomplishments were about the equivalent of the honors just cited, failed tc pursue that route, instead sho landed in Hollywood and afaor thr3e years of featured rolos is playing featured leads at Paramount. As Margaret Fitzpa trick, Gail made hor earthly debut at Biraiingham., Alabama. Her father, now dead, was bojm in Ireland. Kor mother, descended of a long lino of Southern forebears, is with her in Hollywood. She 7/cnt to grado sch ol and hi ah school in Birmingham, then to Howard College . Her aim was la-;, aad eventually the governorship of Alabama but instead she»s a mcvio star. Howard College conferred upon her the degree of Bachelor of Arts and she Matriculated in law at the Univorsity of Alabama. For fun she entered Paramount »s nation-nido "panther Woman" contest* She was not cast in the rclo but obtained along term contract, nevertheless. And the first thing oho did after establishing herself in Hollywood, was tc bring Dick — tho younger of her two brothers — to tho Pacific Coast and outer him at tho Drew preparatory school in San Francisco, to equip him for an appointmen t to Amcpolis. Sho i3 a perfume enthusiast; likes tc take a brace of pistols out into tho doscrt and shoot at targets; sho ridos, swims and plays a good gnno of tennis. Gail is five feet, seven inches tall, has black hair, black oyoe, and a sparkling smilo. A scholarship is waiting for hor at tho University of Alabama if sho over caro3 to roturn to cloeceo* Her more recent picturos are: MIS 3 xSS II ?I, NO IIORE LADIES (MGM)j SMART GIRL, W-JJDERER OF THE W.iSTELAND',1 PREVIEW MURDER MYSTERY, EARLY TO BED.